Transcript Federal information access points

Federal information access points
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Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
GPO Access <www.gpoaccess.gov>
GPO Sales
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
Clearinghouses (e.g., ERIC, NCJRS, DEC)
Members of Congress
Agencies (direct distribution of publications)
Agency web sites
Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act
Archives
Commercial vendors (Lexis/Nexis, Dialog, Bernan)
FDLP: Key features
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44 US Code 19
Geographic distribution: 1400 libraries
Two-tiered system: regionals & selectives
Partnership: shared effort and cost
 GPO/agencies: publications, cataloging
 Libraries: housing, staff, equipment
 Ratio of effort: GPO:1::Libraries:4
• Equality of access
• Belief in open government, value of informed citizenry
• Obsolete notion of “publication”, variously interpreted
FDLP: Strengths
• Distributed information ensures permanent
access
• Use of existing structures and expertise in
libraries
• Centralized cataloging adds efficiencies
for libraries
• Libraries provide citizen advocacy, “full
access” ethos
FDLP: Weaknesses
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Inability to track “fugitive documents”
Dependence upon agencies’ cooperation
Print-based information tradition
Location in Legislative Branch
Low financial support for libraries, GPO
Vulnerable to political “wind shifts”
Dependence upon central servers for edocuments
FDLP: key players
• GPO’s Library Programs Service (LPS)
• Congress
– Joint Committee on Printing
– Appropriations Committees
• Office of Management & Budget (Circ. A-130)
• Depository Libraries and their organizations
– ALA’s Government Documents Round Table, and its
Washington Office
– Depository Library Council to the Public Printer
• Information Industry Association
FDLP: changing environment
• Deficit reduction pressure (1990s-?)
– Reduced # of publications
– Pressure to migrate to electronic formats
• Advent of electronic information media
– 1) desktop publishing reduced agency
dependence upon GPO increased fugitive
documents
– 2) CD-ROM (three stages)
– 3) Internet
Federal Information Access Points
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Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)
GPO Access
GPO Sales
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
Clearinghouses (e.g., ERIC, NCJRS, DEC)
Members of Congress
Agencies (direct distribution of publications)
Agency web sites
Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act
Archives
Commercial vendors (Lexis/Nexis, Dialog)
Oregon’s Depository Libraries
• Operated by Oregon State Library
• No selectivity
• Guarantee of free access by libraries to
State’s electronic information
• Designation of information liaison officers
• Broad definition of “public document”
• All digital publications are included and
archived
HB 2118 (2005 revision)
• “'public document' means informational matter
produced for public distribution or access
regardless of format, method of reproduction
medium, source or copyright, originating in or
produced with the imprint of, by the authority of
or at the total or partial expense of any state
agency. ' Public document' includes informational
matter produced on computer diskettes, CDROMs, computer tapes, the internet or in other
electronic-storage media-formats.”
HB 2118 (excerpt)
“An issuing agency shall make available to the
State Library electronic versions of the
agency's public documents that are
produced in a tangible medium. An issuing
agency shall also designate all public
documents that are published
electronically so that the document may be
made available to the State Library.”
Oregon’s local government
documents
• No depository requirements
• Rapid migration to web
• Uneven treatment by diverse
jurisdictions
• UO Library’s experiment:
– Capture from websites
– Create permanent digital archive